ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING DRIVES GREEN NETWORKING THROUGH EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT
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Company participates in initiative to reduce power consumption in optical
networks
Norcross, Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. July 8, 2010. In
recognition that continued deployment of telecommunications networks drives a
demand on power and energy consumption and that current energy levels may
constrain future communications growth, ADVA Optical Networking has been
selected to participate in a research project focused on the development of a
new generation of photonic components that will reduce power consumption and
reduce costs. Named "Colorless and Coolerless Components for Low-Power Optical
Networks" (C-3PO), the grant-based project is focused on increasing
communications network capacity for the next generation of optical-networking
applications.
Recent studies have begun to look at the power consumption of optical networks,
and initial conclusions indicate that today's approach to networking is not
sustainable for the future. Individual optical components consume a large amount
of power, up to tens of watts per component, and making the components larger to
accommodate future network capacity needs will only increase the level of power
required. In addition, as components run hotter, the energy required to cool the
buildings that house the infrastructure can increase power consumption by as
much as a factor of six.
To address this problem, participants in the C-3PO project will undertake a
disruptive approach to optical components by developing cost-effective,
coolerless, silica-based integrated components that are not wavelength-specific
(e.g., colorless), but that have high performance for Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (DWDM) applications.
The deliverables at the end of the three-year project will include low-cost,
photonic-integrated transceivers, which obviate the need for expensive,
thermoelectrically cooled tunable lasers. An additional outcome will be an
approach to electronics/photonics integration via novel electronic chip devices
that are performance-optimized for low-power consumption and that imitate
integration with the arrays of integrated optical devices. These new components
are projected to deliver large savings on equipment in any given year, even into
the hundreds of millions of dollars from data and switching-center applications
alone.
"ADVA Optical Networking continues to drive innovation. Our participation in the
C-3PO project is a strong example of how we push advanced technology to bring
constant and continued innovation into the network," stated ADVA Optical
Networking's chief technology officer, Christoph Glingener. "The components
that result from C-3PO will be integrated into our FSP 3000 platform, which will
enable our customers to automatically benefit from lower power consumption and
operational expenses (OPEX). We will continue to pursue all opportunities to
assist our customers in driving efficiency into their operational model. We look
forward to great cooperation with the C-3PO project partners."
In addition to ADVA Optical Networking, other participants in the project
include:
· University College Cork/Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
· CIP Technologies (United Kingdom)
· Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC) (Belgium)
· POLATIS (United Kingdom)
· CONSTELEX (Greece)
C-3PO is a three-year project focused on metro and access networks that kicked
off in June 2010 and is supported by the European Commission's (EC) Seventh
Framework Program (FP7). As part of that larger EC initiative, C-3PO is housed
within the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) program's photonics
efforts. The total budget for the project is EUR 2.6 million, with EUR 2 million
of that coming from the European Union.
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